Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1887-09-07
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WEDNESDAY. sErTENsxR :, 1887.
cees News.

thai the closing down ot the water
 packet furnaces d the United Verde
 Copper mine was hahle to he pe-ma-
 nent. yovKxxl-NSxk representative
 called to-day on Governor Tritie for in-
 formation on the subject He iaiormed
 us that such vas not the fsct That
 c~ine to the grading and ioundstaen
 work required in front o,f the ore heors
 ot the furnace. 1t wss impossible to run
 the water 5acki furnaces v1th economy
 while the excsvstng ior and placing os
 the foundations of his roasting fErnsces
 or Elax E~~ z--rrcss- He stated
 thai be was accommodating coke sk rap
 idly as the teams put on the road could
 do the work These teams are receiv-
 ing <lo per lon foT coke fo the furnaces.
 and SIC per ton ior retarn sressht to
 verde station The Governor furnishes
 water free everywhere needed by the
 teams, and an other expenses such e
 feeding animals, repslrs oi wagons. etc,
 gre borne by the ireighters. As ii re-
 quires in the extreme only five days to
 make the rssund trip, and 1000 pounds
 each per animal can te drawn, 0e
 rr1ce Is a Tssfsrsbie one sc freighters,
 and be has no doabt whatever of being
 able to procure xn animals and wagons
 reqEired to transport coke to and bring
 balhon trom the furnaces. The nm
 ing work, he says, Is being continued,
 and he is sccnmnlAting large eranti- !
 fy of oxides and carbonsses carrying
 silver, Snd expects to put the fur
 nace< ln blast again September 18th,
 when he expects to make splendid
 run of copper carrying silver largely
 His product for the month of August,
 starting on the ls,, ior g days, was PA
 tons oi matte and bullion. xn carrying some silver and gold. Of this product | only @ tons have reached the railroad, | solar, snd has been shipped &s follows
 By MT. Cockburn, car iosd. 10 Denver. One car load, to E. N. Jerome, of the
 United Verde, for test of quality and de
 termination in New York, by buyers, for
 Swansea and other places One car
 load to E. NJ Jerome, to 60 to the Ox-
 ford O., Constable Hook, N. J., who
 handled the million dollars of product
 d the Unised Verde Company formerly
 produced, And who have erected plant
 costing $2oo, to separate copper and
 silver, and which is now almost idle for wani oi that class ot product. The
 next car load vlll be consigned so Ball & Black. BellviIle, III, opposite St- , Louis, who have furnished very high rates for such product ss he IS making.
 In regard te the erection of coke bins, { platform, etc, which he sad were prom , ised him by the board ot directors Of 1; the rsllroad, and also ss to furnishing { him with 500 gallons oi water per day, T he said: The platform and scales have been erected st my own expense, but | shall charge the company with the cost C The first water car WAS taken n yes ' terday, and l presume thai everything ! necessary fer complete supply will now be furnished" No action has ' been taken, he ssid, in reference to the | coke bins, bui he sad he had telegraph . ed, September lst to Nel Mcdonald, ( 4 Wan St, New York, who, he claims, . has made all advances for building the | rai,road, and who now holds possession U ot large portion of the first mortgage s bond securities, and is paying all inter Il est coupons which have matured on q them, and from whom W. C. Bashford P < Ca. has jus; receiSed the interest on tl all bonds, held by them, fcw days 8 since, that the facilities, ss promised, k had not been furnished, and requesting him 10 sld, Ii possible, to have the bins n erected. and be said he hadevery reason to helieye thai the material would be or dered and the bins constructed.
 Governor Tnile will leave Dor New N York on Thursday, September Sth, by which time sufficient product will be r shipped and and arrive in New York for . him to determine which market he will make shipment o
 Mr F. N. Holbrook. superintendent of a Ihe enterprise for him; H. c. Church, in charge of the mine, e well Xs the gov . srnor himself, by measurements of ore bodies and otherwise, estimate that there s now opened in the Eureka and Hamp- U on mines alone sufficient ore to run all he furnaces, when the new ones are for ai least three years. and ,ecomes matter oi frst importance to 'S where the product csn be mar ~ zesed 10 the greatest advantage. He in ormed us, also, thai if i; becomes nec- sE ,ssa-y. in determining this fact before n efuning 10 Prescott. he viii visit Swan "a, Wales, and London, England, where A he best market in the world exists IL As 10 the rAlue 0: the product so far B nroduced, he said ths, i, viii yield sufh-
 ieai money b pay all expenses incrured D, D repairing ihe -ozd, in which be ex- .ecis ,o be reimbursed from the county in t the meeting Q: ;he board of super iscrs in October; for replacing the h. team hoisi, made necessary by the cave a, f the Hampton; for reopening the ls rists around the csved ground for sew -al hundred feet: ior repairing and u iacing the furnaces in good condition gain: :o: fixing up the cave oi ground . t,se Eureka and replacing the broken - mbers. fixing up the main tunnel, racks, replenishing supplies. reorgAniz- lg the boarding house. assay office and iA' flee; 10. adding 10 the coke supplies, loying scales and platform from Ash ne ork: erecting the same a; Verde Ssa- oi on, and establishing convsniences aere; for the purchase of wagons and [ oke beds ic supply ireighters who did